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KARMA: the re(a)lative BRIGHTNESS of GREY
Brice Marden in conversation at Karma bookstore[spacer height="20px"][spacer height="20px"]
1. an almost unrelated prelude:
salaries & negotiated arrivals:
even some bourgeoise are good /eyeglasses / sunglasses / rowers >
today’s the day legends are made / luxury rentals / solid wax-ons / clear
skin
beautiful horizons / the notion of scale / little has changed / f(i)
(n)a(n)cial applications / quality endorsements / HEAR TOO-DAY / GONE
Tomorrow >
clear oceans / allied hearts / healthy emergencies / instructional
endorsements / where things can take you > logic & brilliant brilliant
colors…
grabbers elong the cripple’s time longer just as i get bothered by folks
who talk to strangers > still cravers the same apples to me > putting the
nosteps closer together
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the caves are more diplomatic than the tales they tell
& the idea of revelation always sounds good / it’s about the equality of
shapes /
lines / chromosome/atics > seamless hail on a frozen river / rowers
/ heavy bags ?
unlimited privileges / babysitter demands / where the new standard is
leaning toward pretty / a new pretty or too pretty > the humble man
playing his hunch & betting on the guy in the convertible @ the red light
on a warm winter day blasting his radio / & it only took us a few hundred
years to get here > THE NEW GREY – a purely unpure hands on relative
brightness of what the he who jumped did :[spacer height="20px"]
2. unrelated prelude too[spacer height="20px"]
as of the perimeter & what the eye…
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the impact of my hand on her head
is equal to her hysteria
bergs which are mountains c. hundreds)
covering a later date ,roughly
today’s the day i thought < where africa begins /
clear beautiful food to the rescue
the idea of providing a comfort zone
dissolved in a few brief moments
the way neighborhoods do / the impact would have been financial or
deadly
would it have been any others but us / but i recovered
& her state of health tho questionable
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3. what actually might be the real discourse or disjointed facsimile
thereof
with alterations to the canvas[spacer height="20px"]
a.
sanded down wax - these are paintings > or are you kidding yourself? /
bright red >
2 shapes becoming 3 > symmetry / big accomplishment > 40’s to 50’s
this old bunch of paper recordings / all the same shape / but if you saw
it now being the first complicated coming faster > my attempts at really
bright were not really bright tho graphic like graphite turning white into
black > or am i kidding myself? / in love with tedium crosshatching to
be in a room 7 hours a day surrounded by your influences > 3 deliberate
greys that have to be deliberate ? / a real color filled with light / flea
market located in the middle of the city / that’s no longer there/ hot
neutral but not bright / reading essays > surprises > to be a guard in a
museum & absorb / to absorb these influences / finish drawings / razor
blades / spread it on the wall / … > / replaced by a gas station…[spacer height="20px"]
some things do not explain themselves / you just have to get it / cezanne
does not explain himself / matisse tells you everything / bright is a
matter of seeing / the color for that real form/shape > REAL
POSSIBILITIES … basic tools[spacer height="20px"]
b. the love of razor blades (reprised)[spacer height="20px"]
shocked by time & how much of it there was
/ is / different focus / now others not the same thing what one should
do > long tedious revisions / i tell myself one thing / i push it but
nothing really changes > before plans & apartments we planned
histories / that’s no longer there >
(be – in )
the first babies caused us to move light / bird sounds / the light stops &
so do i
i am blinded by the greys & nothing changes tho the size has grown
change occurs but not in the work
flow
rhythm
a dialogue with myself
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4. more discourse with innumerable interjections
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a.
no right
no wrong anymore
no dialogue
from this old biddy who used to sell
i don’t know what happened
letting others crop your paintings
a farmer’s market in the middle of the studio
presenting beliefs
viability / vibrance / violence / impossible to deal
with
& must move on > vital / that figures > what else is new?
trust a generation to exploit their source material
kuniyoshi for instance
or drinks or reasons
inferior equipment / not reality ? / stuck with one’s own
cliché
in one’s own body of work > so one must move on or become
impossible to deal with / waiting to be heard / waiting to leave / using
them putting them together marrying them with some of ) the…cultural
elite… d. though i did get a good price from her one time / i feel
responsible to my work tho even this makes little difference / i plan on
doing a home movie > at some point i reference art history less > did i
get tired of it? cross referencing > revival > real many of which were
made … concentrated focus on particular (feel) … take them home (with
you)… watch them/ eastern 10-15 years > a long time taking stories /
issues / to my mind they are not in the truest strictest sense > there are
no more issues > or drunks or reasons made by amateurs / this was the
standard > / <[spacer height="20px"]
b.
i live in the heart of the city
in the country
virtual vs. real (less relevant in others)
you would buy them watch them
(Hence (why they…
horrible evolution to make the image
true
in a nano-second buy my presence / to go somewhere /
make connections / my image but let me keep the real
thing /
blue motion forward > perfect feeling >
some ideas more relevant in some things
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c. home movies (frame)
inventive brilliant frames / i’ve been going there since it closed
(down)
BARK - in the end we stick it in a frame – but once the frame is
removed
we start to breathe again – however i couldn’t afford it >
i’m still kicking myself (about this one) - he was (asking) for too much
money
frame no frame unfortunately these things have a way of)
happen(ing) >
the colors change / disappear
BECOME ONE
since. what they call a one of a kind item. i hadn’t seen one before.
source short hand robbed by a screen & so it goes such is
life
What can you do? you can’t (do or) have everything.
back home the war physical reality books are not real / are
article)
You can’t really fake those kind of things > the flesh is less a movie
on tv
i guess anything’s possible. i didn’t (actually) listen to them.
letters & other things. letters in the form of audio recordings
index to something they are not seeing
would use these things to send letters
students offer the most questions > i thought it was too
expensive
these questions are valid > philosophy > i haven’t seen any…
internal debate another missed opportunity
information is one thing the actual experience another
RECORDINGS
where is it best that you have the experience
it looked like the real thing (genuine
what service men sent their families overseas
the ultimate chance to be enlightened
i guess anything’s possible
making a real experience as soon as the object leaves
to be fair. But i can imagine. dear…letters in the form of audio recording
people would use these things to send letters … around the same time i
found
bought…& that instant he wakes up when life’s philo…. the
mind’s stomach
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dalachinsky march/april 2014 - based on a Brice Marden interview
interspersed with a partial Tom Church interview plus my own fragments